EFFERVESCENCE Start-up Pitch Competition 2025 ($20,000 in cash prizes) – YOA

Deadline: February 10, 2025

Applications are open for the EFFERVESCENCE Start-up Pitch Competition 2025. For its fifth version, the EFFERVESCENCE Start-up Pitch Competition will gasoline the rise of Canadian begin-ups whose improvements purpose to rework the sector of life sciences and well being applied sciences (LSHT).

The 10 begin-ups chosen as finalists will get the OPPORTUNITY to current their pitch earlier than the EFFERVESCENCE individuals at marché Bonsecours in Montreal. The pitches shall be judged by a panel of judges, every of whom is a acknowledged professional or investor in the sector of LSHT. The analysis by the jury members will take the type of constructive recommendation and doable options to be explored to permit the entrepreneurial staff to push its venture even additional.

The finalists will profit from a novel visibility with a various viewers comprised of traders, entrepreneurs, researchers, and business members, all introduced collectively at EFFERVESCENCE to find essentially the most promising alternatives for collaboration and creation of the way forward for life sciences.

Categories

Once once more this 12 months, begin-ups shall be grouped into two classes:

• Biopharmaceutical & Biotechnology;
• Medical Technology & Digital Health.

Prizes

The profitable groups shall be supplied cash prizes to contribute to their transformative innovation momentum, together with (however not restricted to!):

• $10,000 prize sponsored by adMare BioInnovations;
• $10,000 prize sponsored by le Fonds de solidarité FTQ.

Other cash prizes to be introduced shortly!

Eligibility

To be eligible, the applicant begin-up should:

• Be integrated and have its head workplace in Canada;
• Be at an early stage of growth;
• Be primarily based on an revolutionary services or products;
• Demonstrate robust development potential;
• Not have acquired a dilutive funding of greater than CAD $3 million.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications shall be evaluated primarily based on the next 5 (5) standards:

• Unmet want: the answer satisfies a major unmet want
• Degree of technological innovation: the beginning-up is engaged on a world-class technological innovation that has the potential to rework the LSHT neighborhood
• Innovative enterprise mannequin: the methods deliberate by the beginning-as much as attain its goal market are established and related
• Differentiation: the venture and the expertise stand out from the competitors
• Team: the beginning-up staff has related and complementary experience and expertise

Application

You are suggested to submit your pitch deck and your solutions to the analysis standards in English, as some committee members are English audio system solely. Nevertheless, you’ll have the selection to pitch in English or in French.

The deadline to apply is Monday, February 10, 2025, at 9:00 a.m. EST.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to EFFERVESCENCE Start-up Pitch Competition.